Math Teacher Lounge
Episodes
Putting teacher voices at the center of math adoption, from Beyond My Years
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Beyond My Years podcast from Amplify has kicked off a special math series, featuring two podcast episodes and a bundle of new resources (see below...
Phones, focus, and grit, with Angela Duckworth, Ph.D., on Beyond My Years
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Angela Duckworth, Ph.D., the New York Times bestselling author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, recently joined Host Ana Torres on the ...
Hear from Dan Meyer on Season 2 of Beyond My Years!
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Meyer recently joined the Beyond My Years podcast to share some of his favorite strategies (and hard-earned lessons) for engaging students in math...
Beyond My Years is back: Season 2 trailer
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Ana Torres and Classroom Insider Eric Cross give you the first look at Season 2 of the Beyond My Years podcast, launching September 17, 2025. Thi...
The best of Beyond My Years (so far!)
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To close out the year, we’re revisiting some of our favorite moments from the first nine episodes of the Beyond My Years podcast – and looking ahe...
Beyond My Years: Teaching takes joy, starring Rebecka Peterson
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The latest episode of Beyond My Years features 2023 National Teacher of the Year — and math educator! — Rebecka Peterson. On the episode, Host Ana...
Beyond My Years: Teaching with resilience, starring Fawn Nguyen
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hi Math Teacher Lounge listeners! Here’s an episode from Amplify’s new podcast, Beyond My Years, that we think you’ll like. It features math tea...
NEW! Beyond My Years: Teaching with heart, starring Joyce Abbott
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Check out Amplify’s new podcast, Beyond My Years— host and educator Ana Torres seeks out educational insights and hard-won lessons directly from p...
Beyond My Years podcast trailer
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this trailer for our new podcast, Beyond My Years, launching August 14th. Every day headlines tout something “new” in education—the l...
Preview: Winning teacher moves
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After watching so much great basketball analysis throughout March and April, Dan has been inspired to put the spotlight on a different kind of superst...
Season finale: Key takeaways and looking ahead
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to the final episode of Math Teacher Lounge! We’ll walk through the past 10 episodes on math fluency and pull out the key takeaways from our ...
S6-E10: Supercharge math fluency through problem-solving
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tune into this episode of Math Teacher Lounge, featuring math teaching and learning specialist and friend of the podcast, Fawn Nguyen. Listen as Nguye...
S6-E09: Unlocking a systematic approach to math-fluency instruction
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for Episode 9, in which Bethany sits down with former classroom teacher Myuriel von Aspen to talk about the importance of a systematic approac...
S6-E08: Cultivating schoolwide math fact fluency
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tune in to Episode 8, where we chat with guest and former grade 1 teacher, Jody Guarino, Ed.D., about how math teachers can collaborate to develop mat...
S6-E07: Building math fluency through games
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join Math Teacher Lounge as we continue our season-long discussion on math fluency with a special live recording at NCTM 2023. In this episode, our gu...
S6-E06: Nurturing fluency through student strengths
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for Episode 6, where we discuss how to take an asset-based approach to building math fluency with John W. Staley, Ph.D., who has spent decades...
S6-E05: Cultivating community and fluency
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tune in to Episode 5, where we dive back into our season-long discussion of math fluency with classroom teacher Lauren Carr. Listen as Lauren shares h...
S6-E04: "Making Black Girls Count," with Dr. Nicole Joseph
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a special episode of Math Teacher lounge where we take a break from our focus on math fluency to talk with scholar and author Nicole M. Jo...
S6-E03: Consciously foster math fluency
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tune in to the latest episode of Math Teacher Lounge where we learn how to intentionally foster fluency with Dr. Art Baroody, Professor Emeritus of Cu...
S6-02: Assessing fluency
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tune in to our latest episode where we sat down with Dr. Valerie Henry to discuss how math fluency assessments can be redesigned to provide teachers w...
S6-01: Defining math fluency
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Season 6 of Math Teacher Lounge is here!This season, we’ll be digging deep into math fluency—exploring what it is, looking into the research aroun...
S5-08: Utilizing AI as a teaching tool
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we continue our summer mini-series where we discuss how to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) as a teaching tool. In this episode of Math...
S5-07: Discerning the role of AI in education
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for our summer mini-series where we’ll be talking about artificial intelligence (AI): what it is, how it is already being used in education,...
S5-06: Season takeaways for tackling math anxiety
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we wrap up this season of Math Teacher Lounge, we’re sharing our biggest takeaways from our incredible discussions around tackling math anxiety.W...
S5-05: Technology & math anxiety: research-based tips for caregivers
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So far in this season of Math Teacher Lounge, we’ve been very lucky to have had so many prolific and brilliant researchers on our show, and our next...
S5-04: Coaching tips for managing math anxiety in teachers
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So far this season, we’ve investigated math anxiety in students and its causes with passionate researchers and curriculum experts, including Sesame ...
S5-03: Cultivating a joy of learning with Sesame Workshop
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen as we chat with Dr. Rosemarie Truglio, senior vice president of curriculum and content for Sesame Workshop! Continuing our theme of math anxiet...
S5 - 02. Uncovering the causes of math anxiety
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re continuing our season theme of math anxiety, going beyond the basics, diving deeper into what causes it, and how we can help students move for...
S5 - 01. Investigating math anxiety
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Season 5 of Math Teacher Lounge is here! This season, we’ll be talking all about math anxiety: what it is, what causes it, and what we can do to pre...
Winter Wrap-Up 03: Ideas to build math fluency
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for the third episode in our Winter Wrap-Up! In this episode from season 3 of Math Teacher Lounge: The Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Valerie H...
Winter Wrap-Up 02: Mathematizing children's literature
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While we’re hard at work producing the exciting fifth season of Math Teacher Lounge: The Podcast, we’re continuing to share some of our favorite c...
Winter Wrap-Up 01: Problem solving and facilitating classroom discussions
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we prep for an exciting new season of Math Teacher Lounge: The Podcast, hosts Bethany Lockhart Johnson and Dan Meyer are looking back at the amazin...
S4 - 05. Cultivating mathematical joy
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Bethany and Dan explore mathematical joy by visiting a math teacher conference in Southern California and Dan shares recent experienc...
S4 - 04. Dear Math
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Bethany and Dan chat with Sarah Strong and Gigi Butterfield, authors of Dear Math: Why Kids Hate Math and What Teachers Can Do About ...
S4 - 03. LIVE from NCTM with Bethany and Dan
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, co-hosts Bethany Lockhart Johnson and Dan Meyer are LIVE with more than one hundred Math Teacher Lounge listeners at the recent Natio...
S4 - 02. Bethany and Dan share their math biographies
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, co-hosts Bethany Lockhart Johnson and Dan Meyer get personal and share their “math bios”—their early experiences with math and ...
S4 - 01. Joyful math teaching with Kanchan Kant
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This season on the Math Teacher Lounge podcast, we follow the theme “joyful math” and uncover its meaning. In this episode, Kanchan Kant joins Be...
S3 - 06. Bethany and Dan take on Twitter!
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Bethany and Dan take a look at several tweets that caught the most fire on Twitter during the 2021-2022 school year. The pair answer ...
S3 - 05. Developing an asset orientation with Lani Horn
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Math education professor Lani Horn shares with us what it means to have an asset orientation towards students, contrasting it with a deficit orientati...
S3 - 04. Ideas to build math fluency with Valerie Henry, Graham Fletcher, and Tracy Zager
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fluency in math can oftentimes be associated with negative experiences with its development— timed worksheets, for example. Bethany and Dan are join...
S3 - 03. Math professional learning experiences with Elham Kazemi
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do we continue to grow and be more reflective about our own teaching? In this episode, Bethany Lockhart Johnson and Dan Meyer chat with Elham Kaze...
S3 - 02. Mathematizing Children’s Literature with Allison Hintz and Antony Smith
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Mathematizing Children’s Literature authors Allison Hintz and Antony Smith join Bethany Lockhart Johnson and Dan Meyer to discuss w...
S3 - 01. Making math viral with Howie Hua
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Howie Hua (you may know him from his viral TikTok videos) joins Bethany Lockhart Johnson and Dan Meyer to discuss making math accessib...